Google is stepping things up in the AI agent browser wars.  The company is launching a suite of new features deeply embedding Gemini into Chrome. That starts with the announcement that Gemini in Chrome will no longer require a membership fee and will begin rolling out to both Mac and Windows users in the US starting […]

Yesterday, Disney-owned ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live "indefinitely" for a comment Kimmel made about the response to Charlie Kirk's death. The response from Republican commentators has been predictably gleeful. They've positioned the suspension as a reversal of "cancel culture," a "deplatforming" that's simply fair retaliation for antagonizing them. "Jimmy Kimmel does have Free Speech, he […]

In a sign of the times, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a video statement denying a massive conspiracy that had overtaken the MAGA discourse: that Israel was behind the death of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk. "Somebody has fabricated a monstrous big lie - that Israel had something to do with Charlie Kirk's horrific murder," […]

Microsoft only started testing its new Gaming Copilot in the Windows Game Bar last month, and it’s now starting to roll out to all Windows 11 users today. While the initial preview was limited to certain markets, Microsoft says today’s release has “regional support everywhere except mainland China.” Microsoft is also bringing its Gaming Copilot […]

"Some of the biggest businesses we've built might not be as relevant going forward," admitted Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella during an employee-only town hall last week. Nadella was responding to a question about the perceived change in culture inside Microsoft, but his answer revealed a lot more about his own fears over Microsoft's future in […]

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (USCPSC) has issued a formal notice with more details about the five power banks that Anker voluntarily recalled earlier this year. The agency has received 33 reports of incidents involving fires and explosions caused by the power banks, with four of them causing “minor burn injuries” and one resulting […]

Two teenagers have been charged in connection with a cyberattack against London’s public transportation network in August 2024. UK investigators believe the “network intrusion” that impacted Transport for London (TfL) last year was carried out by members of the Scattered Spider online criminal group and caused “significant disruption and millions in losses,” according to Paul […]

In December, Meta announced a multiyear partnership with James Cameron's Lightstorm Vision to bring 3D entertainment to Meta's Quest headsets. This week, Cameron joined Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth on stage during the company's Meta Connect conference to share a first result of that partnership: Quest owners are able to watch an exclusive preview clip for […]

Today Microsoft announced its plans to bring a Fairwater AI data center, which it claims is the “world’s most powerful,” online in early 2026. The $3.3 billion construction in Wisconsin is housed at the site of Foxconn’ s failed LCD factory which was announced in 2017, but by the end of 2018 was already being […]

Undeterred by the recent ICE raid that rounded up hundreds of its workers in Georgia, Hyundai announced a fresh slate of investments in the US, including $2.7 billion into the EV battery factory where the raid took place. The automaker also plans to release a range of new electrified models, including extended-range EVs and over […]